“Quality drops exponentially after the arrival of AI”: Research shows experts and contributors are leaving online communities amid a silent “knowledge reset”
Generative AI may have unintentionally pushed out some of the highest quality “expert” contributors on sites like Stack Overflow, as users instead increasingly adopted tools trained on their comments. The problem is that users feel like their expertise and efforts are not being rewarded, with AI often delivering the same solutions at a faster pace. […]
